Small businesses trying to gain a competitive edge over rival firms can benefit from implementing different types of virtualization, as the technology can yield substantial cost savings. Through server virtualization, for example, IT departments can lower...

The Department of Defense has been steadily increasing its spending on cloud services during the past few years in an attempt to reduce the high costs of maintaining and managing large amounts of redundant premise-based systems. The DoD spent $676 million...

Having complete harmony between internally hosted private clouds and externally managed public environments is one of the cloud industry's dreams. With promises to meet these interoperability demands, the...

Small and medium-sized businesses continue to migrate to cloud-based environments in an attempt to increase productivity, lower costs and gain a competitive advantage on larger firms. However, their migrations are not without challenges, and decision-...

Collaboration has become a major aspect of cloud-based productivity tools that enable employees to use intuitive online solutions. The market for cloud-based collaboration applications is expected to generate more than $21 billion in revenue by 2018, an...

The cloud market is fractured and littered with companies coming from and going in different directions to implement hosted services. Today, businesses are usually in one of three stages, either determining a strategy to deploy managed servers, making...